Why Hulisani Dumped Radio!
MEDIA personality Hulisani Ravele has revealed why she walked away from radio.
In 2023, she made a shocking announcement that she’d be leaving 947 and taking a sabbatical from broadcasting after 26 years.
She has shared that it was a direction she got spiritually. Hulisani opened up on Mindful Mondays by former Miss South Africa 2020, Shudufhadzo Musida, on YouTube.
The 37-year-old star said people were worried about what she’d do after she quit because she didn’t have a plan.
“I was like, ‘Look, I’ve been called to stand still and I’m going to be obedient to that call, and I know that I know that in whatever way I will be provided for, because that’s what my faith says and that is what I stand on’,” she said.
However, she had to stand still because of the direction she got spiritually.
“Stillness to the point where I was not on social media, I think, for about two months. I did not spend Christmas with my family. I was alone in Joburg in my home. I had WhatsApp off on my phone. I spoke to no one.
“I did nothing. I did not leave my house. Maybe it was just going to the garage and back. And in that stillness, you are bombarded by those thoughts of ‘Surely, I should be further. Surely, I should be doing something that my peers are also doing’,” she said.
Hulisani said the journey wasn’t easy for her.
“I had the fear that somebody else was going to get the radio show that I want. Somebody is going to start doing the kind of TV show that I want. And I still had to stand in that stillness and in that pause because it was necessary in order to give me the fuel, in order to allow me to hibernate, because what is to come is going to need all of me and all that which has been refilled in me in the stillness.
“The discipline to do that is about committing to what I know is on the other side. I don’t know what it is physically, tangibly, but I know it will be better than what I am now. I don’t know what it is, but I know I’m committed to what it is going to be. And that’s what I stood resolute in,” Hulisani said.
She said she knows this break will help the woman she is to become.
“The discipline to step away from all of that was in commitment to the woman that I know I want to be in my next. It was in commitment to the dream I want to build within broadcasting for myself. And so, you stick to the journey because of what you know the promise is on the other side,” she added.
